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A man working in St. Paul, Minnesota (MN), rail yard suffered fatal injuries when he got trapped and crushed between two rail cars just after midnight of March 27, 2016. The switching yard, located off Childs Road along the eastern shore of the Mississippi River, services Canadian Pacific trains and is a central location for…

An engineer and two conductors crewing a Virginia Rail Express commuter train suffered injuries in an on-track collision with a CSX maintenance vehicle. The crash occurred in Southwest Washington, DC, near the interchange between 14th Street and Main Avenue, at around 11 am on September 24, 2015.     A contractor for the freight rail…

A former rail maintenance contract worker has received a multimillion dollar jury award for disabling injuries he suffered while welding tracks for BNSF in Missouri. The court case was decided on June 26, 2015, and the incident that left the man suffering a number of serious physical injuries and, later, mental disorders occurred in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri…

An unknown author once wrote, “Breath is spirit. The act of breathing is living.”  This is undoubtedly true for four flight attendants who are suing Boeing, claiming that toxic air from an engine leaked into their plane and made them seriously ill on a 2013 flight. In April, a British coroner reported that samples from a…